Only 80 pages in and am totally in love. Completely fascinating/applicable/sad/heartwarming/insightful. Here's one of my favorite quotes:
"What's wrong?"
"The same thing that's always wrong."
"You're sick?"
"I'm sad."
"About Dad?"
"About everything."
"What's everything?"
I started counting on my fingers: "The meat and dairy products in our refrigerator, fistfights, car accients, Larry-"
"Who's Larry?"
"The homeless guy in front of the Museum of Natural History who always says 'I promise it's for food' after he asks for money." She turned around and I zipped her dress while I kept counting. "How you don't know who Larry is, even though you probably see him all the time, how Buckminster just sleeps and eats and goes to the bathroom and has not raison d'etre, the short ugly guy with no neck who takes tickets at the IMAX theater, how the sun is going to explode one day, how every birthday I always get at least one thing I already have, poor people who get fat because they eat junk food because it's cheapers..." That was when I ran out of fingers, but my list was just getting started..."domesticated animals, how I have a domesticated animal, nightmares, Microsoft Windows, old people who sit around all day because no one remembers to spend time with them and thye're embarrassed to ask people to spend time with them, secrets, dial phones, how Chinese waitresses smile even when there's nothing funny or happy, and also how Chinese people own Mexican resaurants but Mexican people never own Chinese restaurants, mirrors, tape decks, my unpopularity at school, Grandma's coupons, storage facilities, people who don't know what the Internet is, bad handwriting, beautiful songs, how ther won't be humans in fifty years-"
